My Wounded Body is Yellow
1.Introduction On the surface, yellow seems like an innocuous characterisation of Asians’ skin. Crazy Rich Asians (2018) corroborates...
“Miller’s Turn”: Foundations for Too-Close Reading in Place for Us
“The critic whose formulations lean to the emotive and the critic whose formulations lean to the cognitive will in the long run produce a...
Yanagiba Kuchibiru and the Disappearing Village
Bosozuke Chintaro fails, in a manner too senile for his age, to process the crowd ahead of him. And so he bumps into one, shoves away...
Maybe It's Just Porn: An Analysis of Sex in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
Without a doubt, sex is a prevalent theme in Thomas Pynchon’s works. It especially stands out in Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) – from...
Witnessing the Witness in Anuk Arudpragasam's The Story of a Brief Marriage
“Neither the poem nor the song can intervene to save impossible testimony; on the contrary, it is testimony, if anything, that founds the...
Manipulating Irony and Affect in the Art of Charlie Chan Hock Hye
This essay will consider the affective claims of Sonny Liew’s The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (henceforth Charlie), examining the...